User talk:Slotmachiner

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April 2018

Hello, I'm HickoryOughtShirt?4. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Carlos Mendoza (baseball), but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:22, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Carlos Mendoza (baseball), without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:25, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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16:09, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Krippendorff

Hello, I'm Deb. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions have been undone because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
Hello, Slotmachiner. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
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Also please note that editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you.Deb (talk) 15:31, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. This is not about whether Krippendorff is notable, although you do have to include reliable references to demonstrate that he is - see Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Verifiability. It is about the promotional wording in the article you created. That needs to change in order to make the article acceptable under the neutral point of view policy. If you don't understand what was wrong with it, I would suggest that you use your sandbox to work on it. Deb (talk) 16:09, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Kaihan Krippendorff

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A tag has been placed on Kaihan Krippendorff, requesting that it be deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under two or more of the criteria for speedy deletion, by which pages can be deleted at any time, without discussion. If the page meets any of these strictly-defined criteria, then it may soon be deleted by an administrator. The reasons it has been tagged are:

It seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. (See section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) Please read the guidelines on spam and Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information.
It appears to be a clear copyright infringement of https://kaihan.net/about/. (See section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.
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Hi Sky - thanks for your help. I worked on it in the sandbox and just updated the page. Let me know what you think. I have also reached out and made contact with Kaihan's assistant who is going to give permission to use their material and also send some pictures/headshots I can add to the page!!

Let me know what else you think it needs. Thank you so much for your help!

Definitely DO NOT get involved with someone who works for Krippendorff. DO NOT use material from his personal promotional sources. It will only get you into more trouble and you could be blocked for an undisclosed COI. Deb (talk) 17:24, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Heard you loud and clear. I will let them know that I do not need it. I believe I have found outside sources for everything at this point anyway. Nothing like a few hours of google research to find what you need!

How to write an article that doesn't get deleted

If you're going to write an article about anyone or anything, here's the steps you should follow:

1) Gather as many professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic sources you can find.

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3) Summarize those sources from step 2, adding citations at the end of them. You'll want to do this in a program with little/no formatting, like Microsoft Notepad or Notepad++, and not in something like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer.

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7) Expand the article using sources you put aside in step 2 (but make sure they don't make up more than half the sources for the article, and make sure that affiliated sources don't make up more than half of that).

Doing something besides those steps typically results in the article not being approved, or even in its deletion. Ian.thomson (talk) 18:13, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Kaihan Krippendorff (June 30)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Theroadislong was:

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Kaihan Krippendorff and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Theroadislong (talk) 08:29, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit when they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to the submission and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
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Slotmachiner (talk) 15:50, 9 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

I rewrote using google scholar, jstor, and news sources. What do you think?